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A burn is an injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or ultraviolet radiation (such as sunburn). Most...

experimented with oil burning steam locomotives at two points in its history. A single experimental tank engine was constructed to burn oil in 1902, and 37...

some engines do have a tendency to build up more sludge than others. burn oil sludge utilization Installation for saving of heavy fuel on boilers, utilization...

industries, and Brazil, Germany, and Russia utilize oil shale to some extent. Oil shale can be burned directly in furnaces as a low-grade fuel for power...

An oil burner engine is a steam engine that uses oil as its fuel. The term is usually applied to a locomotive or ship engine that burns oil to heat water...

is not actually an oil, but a mixture mostly of wax esters, and there is no evidence that NASA has used whale oil. Some oils burn in liquid or aerosol...

data. A thermal burn is a type of burn resulting from making contact with heated objects, such as boiling water, steam, hot cooking oil, fire, and hot...

Golden State Limited. Between May and August 1950, they were converted to burn oil instead of coal, and in spring 1953 eleven of them moved to Southern Pacific's...

built by the Great Western Railway. Eleven of these were converted to burn oil for a short period in the 1940s. During this time, they were renumbered...

cylinder heads, causing it to leak into the valves and burn oil. Another problem was that oil would pool in the crankcase rather than being pumped, causing...

built between August 1923 and August 1950. Five of these were converted to burn oil for a short period in the 1940s. Unlike most other locomotives so converted...

A burn pit is an area of a United States military base in which waste is disposed of by burning. According to the United States Army field manual, there...

or oils burned in cotton- or wool-wick burners. In a stricter sense, fuel oil refers only to the heaviest commercial fuels that crude oil can yield...

Division, so four locomotives (262, 263, 267 and 269) were converted to oil firing and sent west to work passenger and freight trains in the gap between...

17149) took No. 4014's place in the museum. No. 261 may be converted to burn oil, depending on the feasibility study and cost-benefit analysis. UP originally...

Walschaert valve gear. In 1947, Nos. 201, 202, 204 and 206 were converted to burn oil to comply with smoke regulations in Baltimore. Following the conversion...

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in...

clear and safe to burn. Kerosene was also produced during the same period from oil shale and bitumen by heating the rock to extract the oil, which was then...

of Point Tupper. It was originally designed to burn oil, later coal. It was designed to burn fuel oil imported through a deep-water supertanker terminal...

Payne, who moved it to St. Thomas, Ontario in Canada and modified it to burn oil. It eventually made its way to the Golden Pacific Railroad in Tacoma, Washington...